In the face of waning consumer and business confidence, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on March 11 that the Trump administration’s economic policies would lead to long-term economic gains and that the recent stock market turmoil was part of temporary growing pains.
Economic anxiety deepened in February as households and small businesses braced for a challenging year ahead, with reports from the Federal Reserve and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) highlighting growing financial pessimism.
Amid the downturn, the White House said that current economic uncertainty is part of a necessary transition away from the Biden administration’s economic policies that it said led to an “economic disaster.”…
White House Defends Economic Policies Amid Rising Anxiety
